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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Poignancy \Poign"an*cy\, n.
The quality or state of being poignant; as the poignancy of
satire; the poignancy of grief. --Swift.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
poignancy
n 1: a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow: "a moment of
extraordinary poignancy" [syn: {poignance}]
2: a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow);
"the film captured all the pathos of their situation"
[syn: {pathos}]
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